The gHacks blog has a post about the 5 Things Linux does better than Windows. Reading it got me thinking about a situation I had recently. I had close to 40 thousand text files, and I needed a list of all unique files. I wouldn’t even know how to attach that problem in Windows. With [...]
Read more »Are you planning a road trip in America this summer? If so, you may want to check out Lonely Planet’s new guidebook series “US Trips”. There are six books in the series covering different parts of the United States: Arizona New Mexico & the Grand Canyon Trips California Trips The Carolinas Georgia & the South [...]
Read more »VLC Media Player version 0.9.9 has been released. It is mainly a bug-fix release. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform media play. It supports a large number of multimedia formats, and it can stream sound and video between computers. VLC is one of my favorite media players. I especially like how it can [...]
Read more »Instacalc is a web application that gives you a fully functional calculator right in your browser. It supports unit and currency conversions, and it can do trig and log functions. You can embed live calculations in a website. For example, I have embedded some simple calculations below, and you can modify them as you wish. [...]
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